Horseshoe.



No. 859.495. PATENT'BD JULY 9, 1907. J. T. HBISLER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLIOATIOII FILED MAY 24, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN THEODORE HEISLER, OF YULE, NORTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TONELS PETERSON, OF YULE, NORTH DAKOTA, AND'ONE-THIRD TO JOHN H.OHRISTIANSEN, OF SENTINEL BUTTE, NORTH DAKOTA.

HORSE SHOE N0. 859,495. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July9, 1907, Application filed ay 24,1906. Serial No. 318,579.

To all whom it may concern: while the inner portions of the sole or seatwhere the Be it known that 1, JOHN THEODORE HEIsLER, a citileast strainsoccur tapers to a comparatively thin platezen of the United States,residing at Yule, in the like form. Thus the thinner portion of the soleor 45 County of Billings and State of North Dakota, have inseat willmore readily adapt itself to the shape of the Vented a new and usefulHorseshoe, of which the folhoof, and avoid cramping or straining thesame, while lowing is a specification. the thicker outer edges offer therequisite resistance This invention relates to improvements in horse'-to prevent breakage or bending of the shoe under the shoes, and hasfor'its object to improve the construcsevere strains to which suchdevices are subjected. 50

tion and increase the efficiency and utility of devices The shoes aremanufactured from bars rolled into the of this character, shape shown inFig. 3 and then bent into the required With these and other objects inview which will apform without changing the transverse shape. The pearas the nature of the invention is better understood, shoes are thus ofthe same form throughout their entire the invention consists in certainnovel features of conlengths, which equalizes the strains anddistributes the 55 struction as hereafter fully described and claimed.pressure uniformly upon the hoofs.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this Having thusdescribed the invention, what is claimed specification and in whichcorresponding parts are deis:- noted by like designating characters, isillustrated the A horse shoe consisting of a blank of uniformtranspreferred form of the embodiment of the invention verse dimensionand configuration throughout, said blank 60 having a plane upper sidewhich constitutes a hoof-bearcapa-ble of ca1 lymg F Into plactlcal P- ling surface and a plane lower side which is parallel to the In thedl'awlngs g 1 1s a bottom P VIEW and plane of the upper side and whichconstitutes a ground F ig. 2 is a top plan view of the improved article.Flg. engaging surface, the blank having an arcuate outer edge,

3 i a transverse Section enlarged on h li 3 3 f the arc of which isstruck from a center midway of the Fig 1 said upper and lower planesurfaces, with a radius equal to the greater transverse dimension of theblank, the The improved horse shoe comprisesasole or seat porchord ofSaid are lying at a right angle to the parallel 25 tion 10 of uniformwidth thoughout and increasing in upper and lower sides of the blank,the inner edge of the thickness from the inner edge 11 o d h Outer dblank being right angles to the upper and lower sides, 12 and Withacontinuous calk rib 13 dependino, from the blank having an inclinedplane surface located under the upper side and having its higher edgevadjacent the inthe Sole poruon at Its Outer edge and consldembly neredge of the blank, the blank having an inclined S111" thicker than thesole portion at itsjuncture therewith, face conforming to the curvatureof the shoe and extend 30 and decreasing in thickness toward the bearingor gripi the lower edge of 11116 first Said inclined sulffl'ce p edge14. The Outer face of the rib is substantially to the inner edge of thelower side of the shoe, said inclined surfaces being at an obtuse angleto each other, Vertlcal or at fight angles to the body of the Shoe andthe blank being provided with nail perforations located in preferablyslightly convex, to improve the appearanc the first said inclinedsurfaces and having their outer and with all the incline upon the innerface of the rib. edges alined with the p of the angle e e t w 35 By thismeans the tendency of the Shoe to enter the inclined surfaces, the sidesof said perforations lying in planes which converge from the first saidinclined sursoil or soft parts of the road is lessened, and the tendfaceto the upper Side of the blank ency of the shoe to adhere to portions ofthe material In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as my Own, I

of the road is likewise lessened, while at the same time have heretoaffixed my signature in the presenceof two the inclined inner face ofthe rib, prevents material 40 from adhering to the hoof or within theshoe. By this Witnesses means the outer portion of the sole or seatwhere the FIELD,

' greatest strains occur is strengthened and stiffened, F. L. THOMPSON.

.TOHN THEODORE HEISLER.

